If you calculate with overtime, it is.

  40+30*1.5 = 85 effective hours
  70000/52/85 = $15.84 hour

Indeed. I hadn't considered that.

Who, with a college degree or without a union, gets overtime?

Also $70k is "low wages". Hilarious.

>> What if we told you that we were beginning to think work itself was the problem?

Who needs people doing useful things anyway. Intellectual Marxists losing touch with the reality of the experience of working class people? Or actual reality in general? Perish the thought!

>Also $70k is "low wages". Hilarious.

Entirely dependent on your location. I'd imagine that most _ideal_ architecture jobs require an urban setting, which usually translates to high rent/housing prices, for which 70k might be a tricky budget.

If you're earning 70k in a strip mall sprawl, you might be better off financially speaking, but what opportunities exist there?

$70k isn't very tricky outside of "the most expensive places to live", and working in an urban setting doesn't mean you need to live next to the buildings you are designing.

Median household income, NYC: $58,000 ($35,000-77,000) http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/income-taxes/med_hhold_in...

Chicago: $50,000 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chicagocityilli...

If you're talking the SF Bay area, $70k might be quite a bit below median. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/map/sanfranciscocount...